This second volume of collected letters charts a time of intense creativity for Tennessee Williams, which saw the production of six major plays and several major film projects, including A Streetcar Named Desire. The notorious Baby Doll brought Williams and his main collaborator Elia Kazan into conflict with powerful agencies of censorship, revealing Williams' studied resistance to the forces of conformity. Through it all, his wit, mischievousness, and wickedly keen eye for human idiosyncrasies make it clear why Gore Vidal, upon reading the letters, declared Williams "the most distinctive, humorous, American voice since Mark Twain."